Hulu Acquires King Of The Hill, Family Guy, Bob’s Burgers, Futurama, And Others

Hank Hill, Bobby, and crew return as Hulu has bought the rights to stream all 13 Seasons of FOX’s cancelled King of the Hill. Hulu has acquired a number of other animated series and will exclusively stream Family Guy, American Dad, Bob’s Burgers, Futurama, and The Cleveland Show.

Encyclopedic Data:

King of the Hill is an animated sitcom created by Mike Judge and Greg Daniels that ran from January 12, 1997 to May 6, 2010 on Fox. It centers on the Hills, a middle-class American family in the fictional city of Arlen, Texas. It attempts to maintain a realistic approach, seeking humor in the conventional and mundane aspects of everyday life.

The series debuted on the Fox network as a mid-season replacement in 1997, quickly becoming a hit. The series’ popularity led to worldwide syndication, and reruns formerly aired nightly on Adult Swim from 2009 until 2018. As of July 24, 2018, reruns aired on Comedy Central. The show became one of Fox’s longest-running series (third-longest as an animated series, behind The Simpsons and Family Guy), and briefly was the second longest-running animated sitcom in history. In 2007, it was named by Time magazine as one of the top 100 greatest television shows of all time. King of the Hill won two Emmy Awards and was nominated for seven.

A total of 259 episodes aired over the course of its 13 seasons. The final episode aired on Fox on September 13, 2009. Four episodes from the final season were to have aired on Fox, but later premiered in nightly syndication from May 3 to 6, 2010.